Zitat des Tages über Zunge / Tongue:
All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
Love's tongue is in his eyes.
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.